しけい
Meanings
Noun
1. death penalty; capital punishment
Pitch accent
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Composed of
death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
penalty; sentence; punishment
Used in vocabulary (11 in total)
criminal condemned to death; convict on death row
death sentence
Examples (8 in total)
I'm against the death penalty.
The accused was sentenced to death.
The judge condemned him to death.